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Mueller Investigation Is Over / Part two are the trials. Hey Jack, I Was Right. 20 Plus Russians Charged, 19 Of Trumps People Convicted of Felonies.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second is irrelevant.

Tuesday is almost here.

Sorry to tell you, but your Trumptard dreams must wait until Trump becomes President in 2025 because Biden stands in the way of a New World, a Paradise for angry poor white trash.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, December 5, 2022 1:45 PM

THG


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

More character assasination, by insinuation this time. Now you condemn someone by what [you imagine] someone else MIGHT have said?

Evidence, SECOND. That's what's missing from your excessively long posts.

Anyone who writes paragraphs to describe a room hasnt got a thing to say.




Mueller Investigation Is Over / Part two are the trials that begin in 2021 / tick tock



Read the title of the thread comrade. The trials have begun. tick tock

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 12:04 PM

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Trump Blasts Charles McGonigal After Arrest: 'Rot In Hell'

Charles McGonigal, 54, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI's New York office, is accused of secretly working for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, as well as conspiring to commit money laundering.

Prosecutors said that McGonigal is alleged to have tried to help Deripaska get off the sanctions list after leaving the FBI in 2018. He is also alleged to have taken money off the Russian billionaire in 2019 in order to investigate a rival oligarch.

While not connected to the investigation, McGonigal was one of the leading figures behind the investigation into alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-blasts-charles-mcgonigal
-after-arrest-rot-in-hell/ar-AA16GdR0?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=280d341b694042c298d603fba33eecc3


McGonigal was one of the first FBI figures to be made aware of allegations that George Papadopoulos, a campaign adviser for Trump, boasted that he knew Russians had dirt on Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton.

In a post on Truth Social after the Department of Justice announced the charges, Trump said: "The FBI guy after me for the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, long before my Election as President, was just arrested for taking money from Russia, Russia, Russia. May he Rot In Hell!"



Trump tries to spin this as evidence there was no direct contact with Russia and his campaign during his presidential run. Oh contraire, it is simply more evidence of Putins’ infiltration, and therefore influence over how the politics played out during his campaign.

Some here will also try and say this proves the FBI is corrupt. That is because they are both stupid and anti-institution. Anti all intuitions. The FBI employs about 35 thousand people. This was a good catch by the FBI and this traitor is being brought to justice. As will be Trump.

tock tock


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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 1:57 PM

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I'd be more worried about your guy who was sitting on classified documents that were purely illegal for him to even have in his position since the time he was Senator.

I'd start a tick tock thread of my own for that, but I'm not a mindless, childish twit like you, Ted.



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Thursday, January 26, 2023 8:48 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd be more worried about your guy who was sitting on classified documents that were purely illegal for him to even have in his position since the time he was Senator.

I'd start a tick tock thread of my own for that, but I'm not a mindless, childish twit like you, Ted.

The difference was that Trump refused to return the secrets. Also, Trump lied to the FBI about not having secret documents. Also, the FBI had to break into Trump's dwelling to get back the secret documents Trump said he didn't have. Also, Trump said he declassified documents with his brain. Trump is crazy:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+said+he+declassified+documents+w
ith+his+brain


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Timothy Snyder connects the dots: FBI, McGonigal, Manafort, Deripaska, Trump, and Putin
| January 25, 2023

In a 20-tweet thread, Timothy Snyder outlines the timeline and connections that now scream out for further investigation following the indictment of Charles McGonigal, the former Special Agent in Charge (“SAC”) of FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York:

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1618309363084718080

Timothy D Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "On Tyranny," with 20 new lessons on Ukraine, "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Download those books for free from https://libgen.unblockit.ink/search.php?req=Timothy+Snyder

In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20

The person who led the relevant section, Charles McGonigal, has just been charged with taking money from the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Follow this thread to see just how this connects to the victory of Trump, the Russian war in Ukraine, and U.S. national security. 1/20

The reason I was thinking about Trump & Putin in 2016 was a pattern. Russia had sought to control Ukraine, using social media, money, & a pliable head of state. Russia backed Trump the way that it had backed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, in the hopes of soft control 2/20

Trump & Yanukovych were similar figures: interested in money, & in power to make or shield money. And therefore vulnerable partners for Putin. They also shared a political advisor: Paul Manafort. He worked for Yanukovych from 2005-2015, taking over Trump’s campaign in 2016. 3/20

You might remember Manafort’s ties to Russia from 2016. He (and Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump, Jr.) met with Russians in June 2016 in Trump Tower as part of, as the broker of the meeting called it, “the Russian government’s support for Trump” (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 237). 4/20

Manafort had to resign as Trump’s campaign manager in August 2016 when news broke that he had received $12.7 million in cash from Yanukovych. But these details are just minor elements of Manafort’s dependence on Russia. (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 235). 5/20

Manafort worked for Deripaska, the same Russian oligarch to whom McGonigal is linked, between 2006 and 2009. Manafort’s assignment was to soften up the U.S for Russian influence. He promised “a model that can greatly benefit the Putin government.” (#RoadToUnfreedom, p. 234). 6/20

While Manafort worked for Trump in 2016, though, Manafort’s dependence on Russia was deeper. He owed Deripaska money, not a position one would want to be in. Manafort offered Deripaska “private briefings” on the campaign. He was hoping “to get whole.” (#RoadToUnfreedom, 234) 7/20

Reconsider how the FBI treated the Trump-Putin connection in 2016. Trump and other Republicans screamed that the FBI had overreached. In retrospect, it seems the exact opposite took place. The issue of Russian influence was framed in a way convenient for Russia and Trump. 8/20

The FBI investigation, Crossfire Hurricane, focused on the narrow issue of personal connections between the Trump campaign and Russians. It missed Russia’s cyber attacks and the social media campaign, which, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, won the election for Trump. 9/20

Once the issue of Russian soft control was framed narrowly as personal contact, Obama missed the big picture, and Trump had an easy defense. Trump knew that Russia was working for him, but the standard of guilt was placed so high that he could defend himself. 10/20

It is entirely inconceivable that McGonigal was unaware of Russia’s 2016 cyber influence campaign on behalf of Trump. Even I was aware of it, and I had no expertise. It became one of the subjects of my book #RoadtoUnfreedom. 11/20

The FBI did investigate cyber later, and came to some correct conclusions. But this was after the election, and missed the Russian influence operations entirely. That was an obvious counterintelligence issue. Why did the FBI take so long, and miss the point? 12/20

I had no personal connection to this, but will just repeat what informed people said at the time: this sort of thing was supposed to go through the FBI counter-intelligence section in New York, where tips went to die. That is where McGonigal was in charge. 13/20

The cyber element is what McGonigal should have been making everyone aware of in 2016. In 2016, McGonigal was chief of the FBI’s Cyber-Counterintelligence Coordination Section. That October, he was put in charge of the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI’s NY office. 14/20

We need to understand why the FBI failed in 2016 to address the essence of an ongoing Russian influence operation. The character of that operation suggests that it would have been the responsibility of an FBI section whose head is now accused of taking Russian money. 15/20

Right after the McGonigal story broke, Kevin McCarthy ejected Adam Schiff from the House intelligence committee. Schiff is expert on Russian influence operations. It exhibits carelessness about national security to exclude him. It is downright suspicious to exclude him now. 16/20

Back in June 2016, Kevin McCarthy expressed his suspicion that Donald Trump was under Putin’s influence. He and other Republican members concluded that the risk of an embarrassment to their party was more important than American security. #RoadToUnfreedom, p. 255. 17/20

The Russian influence operation to get Trump elected was real. It serves no one to pretend otherwise. We are still learning about it. Denying that it happened makes the United States vulnerable to ongoing Russian operations. 18/20

I remember a certain frivolity from 2016. Trump was a curiosity. Russia was irrelevant. Nothing to take seriously. Then Trump was elected, blocked weapon sales to Ukraine, and tried to stage a coup. Now Ukrainians are dying every day in the defining conflict of our time. 19/20

The McGonigal question goes even beyond these issues. He had authority in the most sensitive possible investigations within U.S. intelligence. Sorting this out will require a concern for the United States that goes beyond party loyalty. 20/20

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Thursday, January 26, 2023 9:39 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'd be more worried about your guy who was sitting on classified documents that were purely illegal for him to even have in his position since the time he was Senator.

I'd start a tick tock thread of my own for that, but I'm not a mindless, childish twit like you, Ted.

The difference was that Trump refused to return the secrets. Also, Trump lied to the FBI about not having secret documents. Also, the FBI had to break into Trump's dwelling to get back the secret documents Trump said he didn't have. Also, Trump said he declassified documents with his brain.



They weren't classified anymore. He was President and he declassified them.

They did not have to break into his home to get them. He had them locked in a door, with a lock they had a key for. They waited until Trump and his family were out of town, and Biden* ordered them to break in while nobody was there to make a big fuckin' show before the midterms.

They also tried to plant evidence on Trump's property, but discovered once on the premises that he had every inch of that place covered in cameras that were recording to the cloud. So not only couldn't they plant anything, but they couldn't even turn the cameras off because he'd have footage of that.



Meanwhile, none of the documents Biden* has from when he was VP were legal for him to have. And the ones from when he was Senator before that were extremely illegal for hm to have.




Just like the taxes, there will be NOBODY going after Trump about documents now.

You lose again.

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Thursday, January 26, 2023 9:57 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Just like the taxes, there will be NOBODY going after Trump about documents now.

You lose again.

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Trump's taxes are a Rorschach test of the voters. If a voter doesn't see the tax problem, a psychologist would know a great deal about that voter's particular mental illness. Voters who are dishonest people don't see the tax problem.

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Thursday, January 26, 2023 8:01 PM

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Bombshell Report Reveals Durham Probe Included Criminal Investigation of Trump Financial Deals After 2019 Tip From Italian Officials

The New York Times published a bombshell new report on Thursday detailing special counsel John Durham’s four-year-long investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. The Times reported Durham’s investigation actually turned on Trump – who had publicly called for and boosted Durham’s probe into what Trump called the “Russia hoax.”

As the Durham probe finally winds down after finding no wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia investigation and Durham is working on a final report, the Times spoke “with more than a dozen current and former officials” with knowledge of the investigation, who revealed stunning new details.

One of the major new revelations relates to Durham speaking with Italian officials in an attempt to tie intelligence agencies to the Trump-Russia report. Instead of helping Durham, however, Italian officials tipped him off to alleged financial crimes by Trump, which reportedly was concrete enough to launch a new investigation.

“Mr. Durham spent his first months looking for any evidence that the origin of the Russia investigation involved an intelligence operation targeting the Trump campaign,” the Times reported, noting both then-Attorney General Bill Barr and Durham “traveled abroad together to press British and Italian officials to reveal everything their agencies had gleaned about the Trump campaign and relayed to the United States.”

“Italian officials… unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes,” the Times reports, adding:

Mr. Barr and [former special counsel John] Durham decided that the tip was too serious and credible to ignore. But rather than assign it to another prosecutor, Mr. Barr had Mr. Durham investigate the matter himself.

The Times note of the additional investigation that Barr and Durham “never disclosed that their inquiry expanded” into a criminal investigation of Trump based on the 2019 tip. “ The specifics of the tip and how they handled the investigation remain unclear, but Mr. Durham brought no charges over it,” the report concluded.

The Times also noted that, among other episodes, the Durham probe resulted in investigators getting access to emails from a top aide to right-wing boogeyman George Soros:

Mr. Durham used Russian intelligence memos — suspected by other U.S. officials of containing disinformation — to gain access to emails of an aide to George Soros, the financier and philanthropist who is a favorite target of the American right and Russian state media. Mr. Durham used grand jury powers to keep pursuing the emails even after a judge twice rejected his request for access to them. The emails yielded no evidence that Mr. Durham has cited in any case he pursued.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bombshell-report-reveals-durha
m-probe-included-criminal-investigation-of-trump-financial-deals-after-2019-tip-from-italian-officials/ar-AA16MIop?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3997c91016e84e2e8ce3ba10ebeef5a0




Wait for the Druham report, wait for the Druham report is all we kept hearing. This shit is way too funny.

tick tock

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Thursday, January 26, 2023 8:34 PM

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Told you so. As it was happening, I told you so.

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‘Trolls’ and ‘Liars’: The definitive debunking of Trump AG Bill Barr






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Thursday, January 26, 2023 10:10 PM

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Trump will be fine.

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Monday, February 6, 2023 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by THG:_Monday, March 25, 2019

Hey Rue (comrade Kiki). First, yea America. Sorry you don’t practice this level of law in Russia. Hey, maybe someday. Here we celebrate the rule of law despite the protests of trolls. Here, unlike Russia, wrong doings that are uncovered are dealt with. Here, if enough evidence isn't uncovered to prove guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt, then that too is recognized. This happens regardless of our personal opinions. Again, yea America.

Robert Mueller’s mandate was very narrow. What if anything did Russia do during the campaign. Then, because of their behaviors, Trump and others working within his campaign with deep Russian ties, forced Mueller’s mandate to be expanded. He indicted 34 to 37 individuals. Six, seven whatever from within Trumps campaign. Also Indicted were thirteen Russians, three Russian companies. The level of detail Mueller presented in these indictments was astounding. All guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.

That was the standard he used to determine if he could prove a Trump Russia conspiracy. He could not. However, we as a nation saw colluding for ourselves in Trumps behavior, plus Congress isn’t so restricted. The American people’s opinions are not so restricted either. Collusion will still be decided at the polls. It’s not a done deal.

Mueller stated in his report that he could not discount Trump obstructed justice. Further, if Mueller decided not to indict because of the Justice Department’s policy not to indict a sitting president, but felt Trump did commit obstruction, that is how he would proceed. His stating he could not discount obstruction puts the decision squarely in the hands of Congress. Mueller knows this. Barr showed poor judgement to say the least, deciding no obstruction occurred after only after a few hours reading Mueller’s report, when Mueller wouldn’t do it after investigating it for two years.

And thanks comrade Kiki. Thanks for re-posting some of my posts. After rereading them I was pleased to see that I showed such good judgement from beginning to current. It must be terrible for you seeing America shine while Russia fails so miserably.

Tick tock comrade




T


Feb 2, 2023

Trump Attorney General Bill Barr is under fire, after an explosive New York Times report exposed his pressure campaign meddling in the investigation into the Mueller probe. Barr defends himself in a new interview with the LA Times. Senior Mueller probe prosecutor Andrew Weissman joins MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber arguing Barr’s actions are an “assault to the rule of law.”



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Monday, February 6, 2023 12:30 PM

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LOL

Keep that cope coming Ted.

Trump will be fine, and right now he beats Biden* in every poll if the election were held today.



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Monday, April 3, 2023 4:05 PM

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I am so excited.

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023 4:40 AM

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Special counsel appointed by Trump's attorney general says FBI had no basis for investigating Trump's links to Russia

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/special-counsel-appointed-trumps-a
ttorney-201210455.html

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024 8:46 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by THG:_Monday, March 25, 2019

Hey Rue (comrade Kiki). First, yea America. Sorry you don’t practice this level of law in Russia. Hey, maybe someday. Here we celebrate the rule of law despite the protests of trolls. Here, unlike Russia, wrong doings that are uncovered are dealt with. Here, if enough evidence isn't uncovered to prove guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt, then that too is recognized. This happens regardless of our personal opinions. Again, yea America.

Robert Mueller’s mandate was very narrow. What if anything did Russia do during the campaign. Then, because of their behaviors, Trump and others working within his campaign with deep Russian ties, forced Mueller’s mandate to be expanded. He indicted 34 to 37 individuals. Six, seven whatever from within Trumps campaign. Also Indicted were thirteen Russians, three Russian companies. The level of detail Mueller presented in these indictments was astounding. All guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt.

That was the standard he used to determine if he could prove a Trump Russia conspiracy. He could not. However, we as a nation saw colluding for ourselves in Trumps behavior, plus Congress isn’t so restricted. The American people’s opinions are not so restricted either. Collusion will still be decided at the polls. It’s not a done deal.

Mueller stated in his report that he could not discount Trump obstructed justice. Further, if Mueller decided not to indict because of the Justice Department’s policy not to indict a sitting president, but felt Trump did commit obstruction, that is how he would proceed. His stating he could not discount obstruction puts the decision squarely in the hands of Congress. Mueller knows this. Barr showed poor judgement to say the least, deciding no obstruction occurred after only after a few hours reading Mueller’s report, when Mueller wouldn’t do it after investigating it for two years.

And thanks comrade Kiki. Thanks for re-posting some of my posts. After rereading them I was pleased to see that I showed such good judgement from beginning to current. It must be terrible for you seeing America shine while Russia fails so miserably.

Tick tock comrade




T


Feb 2, 2023

Trump Attorney General Bill Barr is under fire, after an explosive New York Times report exposed his pressure campaign meddling in the investigation into the Mueller probe. Barr defends himself in a new interview with the LA Times. Senior Mueller probe prosecutor Andrew Weissman joins MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber arguing Barr’s actions are an “assault to the rule of law.”








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Tuesday, May 7, 2024 11:53 AM

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Michael Avenatti extortion, tax evasion, fraud, and embezzlement. but now PornoDaniels 'likely' to appear in court ?

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Michael Avenatti extortion, tax evasion, fraud, and embezzlement. but now PornoDaniels 'likely' to appear in court ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/05/07/trump-lawyers-fai
l-at-stopping-stormy-daniels-from-taking-the-stand/?sh=606fadc82b8c


Trump railed against Daniels’ testimony in a now-deleted Truth Social post on Tuesday, writing he had only been told about Tuesday’s witness that morning and the lack of time to prepare was “unprecedented.” Trump’s attorneys have not been given advance notice of who upcoming witnesses will be in the trial, given the threat of Trump attacking witnesses on social media, even as a gag order bars him from doing so. After the Associated Press reported Tuesday that Daniels was slated to testify that day, Trump deleted his Truth Social post, and he did not respond to questions Tuesday on his reasons for deleting the post before entering the courtroom.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, May 7, 2024 1:05 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
I am so excited.

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Monday, June 3, 2024 9:29 AM

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LOL

Keep that cope coming Ted.

Trump will be fine, and right now he beats Biden* in every poll if the election were held today.



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Trump guilty verdict was 'the worst two minutes of Donald Trump's life'



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The time for Biden to show restraint has long since passed.

Trump was just unanimously convicted by a jury of his peers for election interference. He had his hapless fixer pay off Daniels not “for personal gain,” as the Biden campaign statement alleges, but to defraud the American people, to deprive them of the information that they needed to make an informed decision on Election Day 2016 and to illegitimately obtain the most powerful office in the world on behalf of the country’s far right. Donald Trump covered up his affair with Daniels so he could appoint Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He committed felonies so that the insurrectionists at the reactionary Heritage Foundation could rewrite the nation’s tax laws to make rich people richer. And so on.

Biden likes to repeat the canned phrase “Don’t compare me to the Almighty; compare me to the alternative”—a motto he attributes to his father and which is about as edgy as a mid-aughts Verizon Guy commercial. But what the hush money case demonstrates clearly is that Trump is a genuinely terrible human being. What kind of man has unprotected sex with an adult film star while his wife is home recovering from labor and delivery and caring for an infant? What kind of terrible employer has an underling borrow against his own home to cover up his boss’s sordid lies and extramarital affairs?

For years, leading Democrats have danced around a truly blunt assessment of Trump without ever coming out and saying it directly: The man is an evil, amoral cretin willing to betray those closest to him without a second thought. Find some coded language that can puncture the epistemic closure of conservative evangelical Christians. Call him the worst person in the entire country, which is basically what he is. Tap into the robust public opinion of the majorities who believe that extramarital affairs are morally wrong by asking: “If Melania can’t trust him, why should you?”

Whatever path they choose requires departing from the warmth and safety of “No one is above the law” framing. Letting the conviction more or less speak for itself is a conservative strategy that would make sense if Biden were decisively leading the race and wanted to avoid unforced errors. But as hard as it might be for everyone in the White House to accept, the president’s campaign is clearly trailing, according to public opinion polling. Yes, the margins are narrow, but if the election were held tomorrow, it is more likely than not that Donald Trump would win it. You can’t run out the clock when you’re losing. And that means that Biden needs to go on the offensive, just like dozens of leading Democratic officials and strategists are asking him to.

Yet Biden and his team clearly feel that having Biden stay out of the whole thing can help legitimize the prosecutions and whatever verdicts follow. This is wishful thinking. Take one fleeting glance at how people on the right are reacting to Trump’s conviction—that should be sufficient to disabuse the White House of the notion that there is anything it could possibly do to reach hardcore MAGA voters. Former Fox anchor Megyn Kelly promised prosecutions of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for unnamed offenses: “We’re going to have to look at what the statutes of limitations are on the various crimes they surely committed, “ she intoned. Charlie Kirk, the young MAGA media superstar, implored his followers to “indict the left, or lose America.” Donations to the Trump campaign surged. Nearly all Republican officeholders deemed the verdict somehow illegitimate. In other words, keeping the Trump prosecutions at arm’s length earned Biden precisely nothing from the right, which has existed in a state of continuous rage for so long that it does not have any other emotional register to draw upon.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/trump-president-biden-felo
n-alvin-bragg-democrats.html


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